Josh Billings
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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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